Is there any way to download a thread without reading/displaying page by page

I have only occasional access to a high speed link. Usually I am stuck with dial up. When I find an interesting thread, I would like the ability to do a one-click download of the whole thread to my hard drive for later reading, rather than manually page-at-a-time loading and reading and loading and reading etc.

The only forum tool I know to do this is the "Regular Print View" or "Enhanced Print View". I don't think either gives you images, but maybe you don't want them anyway.
There are many third part softwares for offline browsing.